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Modes of Documentary
Modes of Documentary
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Testing understanding of documentary conventions and modes
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What documentary mode would TV news be?
Participatory
Expository
Observational
Performative
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Who is the man behind the theory of documentary modes?
Robert Mckee
Bill Nichols
Syd Field
Hitchcock
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Bill Nichols' theory of documentary modes is...
A framework still used to distinguish elements in films
An old theory that has mostly been forgotten
The truth about documentaries
The only framework used to analyse documentaries
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Name the conventions of an observational documentary.
Archive footage
No interviews
No reenactments
Interviews
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Who interacts with the subject in a performative documentary?
No one
The filmmaker
The crew
Everyone
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Label two conventions of the poetic mode
Camera shots
Music
Reenactments
Interviews
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Propaganda is...
Information from the government used to persuade the public
a way to describe mass media
Information of a biased nature, used to persuade the public
the role given to he/she who organizes the props in films
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Bill Nichols' modes cannot be mixed?
No, usually a film sticks to one mode
Yes, often two or modes coexist in a documentary
A modes is like a recipe that must be followed completely
Usually a film consists of all six modes on equal terms
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What is a voice over in a documentary?
Somebody speaking over someone else
Someone telling others to be quiet
Nobody talking
Somebody talking off camera, offering thoughts and reasons
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What is the Kuleshov Effect?
An editing technique
A way of implying associations between two shots
Relying on the audience to interpret the meaning of a shot
A type of stutter
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What does a performative documentary acknowledge?
The people in the documentary
The funny side of a documentary
The emotional aspect of the documentary
The wrong scenes of a documentary
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What does the information in your documentary need to be to the audience?
Realistic
Funny
Convincing
Scary
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Bill Nichols based his modes on the interpretation of...
The genres of non-fiction films
The genres of fiction films
French cinema
The history of documentary films
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The poetic mode is...
A topic personal to the filmmaker
Where the filmmaker is the natural observer
Subjective representation of reality
An interview between the filmmaker and subject
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Who was Nanook of the North?
One of the earliest documentaries
Mr. Armstrong's grandmother in Broadmeadows
An analogy of how documentaries came into being
Pioneered docudrama
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What is a participatory mode documentary?
Addresses the subject rather than the audience
Based on real life moments
Interview(s) between the filmmaker and subject
Based on real life facts
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Can the filmmaker be in an observational mode documentary?
Yes, as long as she/he does not talk
No, because they will ruin the shot
No, so they cannot influence what is happening
Yes, because it is all scripted
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Who is the focus of attention in a reflexive documentary?
The subject
The camera crew
The audience
The filmmaker
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What is a documentary?
A quiz show
A non-fictional representation of reality
A genre of film
A fictional representation of reality
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What mode of documentary would a wildlife documentary be?
Participatory
Observational
Expository
Performative
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What is a reflexive mode documentary?
Based on real life moments
Based on the filmmaker
Based on facts
Based on suggestions and opinions
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What should you documentary communicate to the audience?
All of the above
A sense of realism
A joke
A message
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According to Nichols, which mode of documentary came first?
Performative
Expository
Participatory
Poetic
